Brett,
Thanks for your spewing, I think that's it.
In Gnome RPM manager some of the RPM's are listed with a '(S)' after the
name of the file, what is that?
Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck Mead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: Installing RPM's
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Bret Hughes spewed into the bitstream:
>
> BH>Frank Reichenbacher wrote:
> BH>
> BH>> There must be a trick somewhere, but I don't get it.
> BH>>
> BH>> RH 6.2 -- I'm trying to follow the linuxdoc.org mini-howto for
> BH>> home-networking. I've downloaded the latest versions of bind, dhcpd
and
> BH>> caching-nameserver; all are in /tmp. Bind appears to install
correctly from
> BH>> the shell, but is listed as 'not-installed' in the Gnome RPM manager
(I
> BH>> rebuit the db) and named is not anywhere to be found. If I uninstall
bind
> BH>> and then try to reinstall from Gnome, I can click on that bloody
install
> BH>> button a thousand times and nothing at all happens.
caching-nameserver won't
> BH>> install because it needs bind. dhcpd also appears to install, but,
although
> BH>> dhcpd appears in /etc, there is no dhcpd.conf anywhere to be found.
> BH>>
> BH>
> BH>are bind-utils installed? try a rpm -qa| grep bind, I get three rpms,
bind,
> BH>bind-utils and ypbind on a server I have.
>
> Also... make sure you have the right kind of RPM's. if they end in
"src.rpm"
> then they are source RPM's and do not contain the binaries you need though
they
> may certainly be used to create them.
>
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